Bookmarkable URLA varicoloured gold snuffbox with six enamelled plaques depicting, on the cover, a lady playing a lyre with a putto playing a recorder and, on the base, a lady at her toilette accompanied by a maid. The blue and gold-flecked background is in imitation of lapis lazuli, which was a decorative technique used on snuffboxes at least as early as 1761 and which was representative of the increasing interest of the Neoclassical taste in Antique hardstones.The scenes on the plaques around the side of the box are probably derived from engravings after François Boucher, such as those published by Pierre Aveline in 1738, those by Jean Daullé in 1748 and of Louis-Felix de La Rue in the mid-1740s. However, the putti lack the softness of Boucher and may be compositions of the anonymous enameller.

Bookmarkable URLThe circular rock crystal box has been mounted in a gold framework, which has been pierced and chased with scrolling foliage within a guilloche pattern and, since there is no gold lining, the clear crystal sparkles through the gold. On the lid a blue baisse-taille enamel ground is enhanced with a diamond trophy showing emblems of Love and Music, all in settings of silver. Underneath the cover is a blue silk lining.